This hardcover retrospective of the Man of Steel includes stories from Action Comics number 0, numbered 1-2, number 137, number 242, number 544, number 775, and number 900, Adventures of Superman number 498, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Superman number 11, number 17, number 53, number 75-76, number 141, number 149, number 247, and number 400, Superman Annual number 11, and a 1940 story from Look Magazine.